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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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net-disco extension Scope.Special and management subnets

Dear IBM, provide options to configure management subnet by using scope.special
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 1 Future consideration

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions

Need more out of the box thresholds for the DB2 sensor to detect key conditions. For example, customers always want to know when there is a DB2 HADR failover. They want to know if there is a failure of the HADR failover. They want to know if neith...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DB2 / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Restrict Import Financials, Import Contracts, Import Asset, Import Labor functionality

We would like to restrict the access for Cost Center Owners to not be allowed to Import csv's into the various IT Planning tabs.  They should be allowed to Export but we have encountered many times where they have incorrectly imported files r...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Download Source JSON Formatted Data

Apptio Datalink supports integration to JSON formatted data sources such as the ServiceNow OOTB connectors. This data is saved in Apptio One project tables in the upload step, however this JSON format differs to the original upload. It is not poss...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Submitted

QREMOTE queue monitoring

The MQ Sensor does not discover remote queues (QREMOTE) from the configured queue managers. In Instana we miss information to replicate a situation from Tivoli Monitoring or Cloud APM. For example: queue depth,
over 1 year ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Workload Scheduler support for linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses"

see ticket IBM support request TS005150482:IBM Workload Scheduler 9.5 Fixpack 3 - with linux parameter "vsyscall=none isses" every TWS command freezes------------------------------------------environment:TWS Client Version 5 Fickpack 03operatingSy...
almost 4 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Allow Responsible Role for Team Workflow

It would be helpful if the Responsible Role for states in team workflows could be managed per team workflow.
over 1 year ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Allow capability to change TimeZone

Please allow capability to change the timezone. We have multiple teams globally and each of them see instana which shows time in their own timezone.But while reviewing together, most of the time we want to change it to one timezone, say EST so tha...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Functionality already exists

Extend IWS REST to contain more basic modificaton operations

Please add rest methods for IWS 9.5 to be able easily to do: Add a job into an existing jobstream – that should be a method with few parametersRemove a job from an existing jobstream - that should be a method with few parametersAdd a dependency in...
about 5 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add VMWare Cluster to TADDM Integration Plugin (for ServiceNow)

We require the TADDM Integration ServiceNow Plugin to be able to send VMWare Clustering CI and relationship data to the appropriate cmdb_ci_vmware_cluster table (and also associated VMWare cluster resource tables) in ServiceNow.
almost 4 years ago in Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager 1 Not under consideration